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to avoid paying taxes. but he says he will not show his taxes to anyone. we just have to trust him on it. and so, everybody has just kept wondering what the deal is with mitt romney and his taxes. then, as of one minute after midnight, friday night into saturday, mitt romney picked wisconsin congressman paul ryan. paul ryan! the budget guy with the blue eyes and the ripped abs. now everybody would certainly talk about that! right? talking about paul ryan and not mitt romney and his taxes and his tax returns. it did not work out like that. >> how many years of tax returns did you turn over to the campaign? >> well, it was a very exhaustive vetting process. it's a confidential vetting process, so it was several years, but i'm going to release the same amount of years as governor romney has. >> and how many was that? >> two. i'm going to be releasing two, which is what he's releasing. what i hear from people around this country, they're not asking, where are the tax returns? >> not to be pushy, but where are t
to avoid paying taxes. but he says he will not show his taxes to anyone. we just have to trust him on it. and so, everybody has just kept wondering what the deal is with mitt romney and his taxes. then, as of one minute after midnight, friday night into saturday, mitt romney picked wisconsin congressman paul ryan. paul ryan! the budget guy with the blue eyes and the ripped abs. now everybody would certainly talk about that! right? talking about paul ryan and not mitt romney and his taxes and...
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so right now we tax that money, investment income at half the rate we tax normal earned income. that would go away under ryan's plan. it wouldn't go away under romney's plan but it would go away under ryan's plan. >> what's the marital way going to be? going toward capital gains and giving a bigger break to the rich? >> romney says he opposes that. in one of the debates herman cain suggested something similar, but he opposes that. ryan's tax is going to cost about 4 to 5 trillion over ten years, that's after you pay for extending the bush tax cuts which nobody explained how you pay for in the first place. now you're dealing with 5 to 10 trillion or 5 to 9 trillion in tax breaks. ryan doesn't do as much on medicare at this point as people think he does. he softened that in the second it ration of his budget and decreases defense spending. so this money is coming out of the hide of the poor. he does domestic cuts in the first ten years. his budget cuts about $750 billion off medicaid. >> would you tell your grandma to vote for this guy? >> i don't tell my grandma how to vote, she'
so right now we tax that money, investment income at half the rate we tax normal earned income. that would go away under ryan's plan. it wouldn't go away under romney's plan but it would go away under ryan's plan. >> what's the marital way going to be? going toward capital gains and giving a bigger break to the rich? >> romney says he opposes that. in one of the debates herman cain suggested something similar, but he opposes that. ryan's tax is going to cost about 4 to 5 trillion...
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. >> you can do that by cutting taxes? >> those are your words, not mine. >> thank you very much, sir. >> that was kind of strange. trying to stuff words in people's mouths? >> it it sounds like you're -- >> ryan folks putting the paper in front of the camera and everything. vice presidential nominee paul ryan getting annoyed in this interview with terry camp in flint, michigan. the campaign even after the interview was over still went out of their way to trash the reporter that paul ryan walked out of that interview on. the campaign given on the record quotes calling the reporter an embarrassment. the city where that reporter works and where that interview took place does have the worst violent crime rate in the nation. so that line of questioning here for mr. ryan was understandable. maybe even predictable. but beyond the newsworthiness of paul ryan getting up and taking off his microphone and ending the interview and beyond the newsworthiness of the campaign going after this reporter, there was what that reporter was ab
. >> you can do that by cutting taxes? >> those are your words, not mine. >> thank you very much, sir. >> that was kind of strange. trying to stuff words in people's mouths? >> it it sounds like you're -- >> ryan folks putting the paper in front of the camera and everything. vice presidential nominee paul ryan getting annoyed in this interview with terry camp in flint, michigan. the campaign even after the interview was over still went out of their way to...
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ryan is now pushing a button that keeps the bush tax cuts, again, whether or not you like the bush tax cuts, they are not a fiscally conservative thing. they were not paid for, they were just larded on to the deficit. he keeps those budget-busting bush tax cuts whole, and then he adds on to them, more than $4 trillion more in tax cuts that hugely, disproportionately, go to the richest people in this country. hundreds of thousands of dollars going to every millionaire in the country. that's expensive. how does he pay for it? he does not say. he says, that's not his call to make. you may agree with that or you may disagree with that. but the point is, it should not be called fiscally conservative. it is something else. in fact, it is something else very specific. that congressman paul ryan, until recently, was very, very happy to talk about. >> the reason i got involved in public service, by and large, if i had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be ayn rand. it's so important that we go back to our roots to look at ayn rand's vision, her writings to see what our girding, undergr
ryan is now pushing a button that keeps the bush tax cuts, again, whether or not you like the bush tax cuts, they are not a fiscally conservative thing. they were not paid for, they were just larded on to the deficit. he keeps those budget-busting bush tax cuts whole, and then he adds on to them, more than $4 trillion more in tax cuts that hugely, disproportionately, go to the richest people in this country. hundreds of thousands of dollars going to every millionaire in the country. that's...
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>> our campaign is going to stay focused on lower taxes. lowering gas prices using american energy and creating jobs. >> is that a yes or no? >> our campaign is going to stay focused on lowering gas prices, creating jobs, and using american energy. >> no comment? >> our campaign is going to stay focused on lowering gas prices, creating jobs, and lowering taxes. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you. i don't know if they're laughing at you, but if you're not laughing, by definition, they're not laughing with you. jesse kelly, ladies and gentlemen. can you believe he lost that election? today, we have a couple new entries. yes. the gentleman that's shown right here in the book, his name is josh mandel, a republican running for senate in ohio against sherrod brown. he was pressed this week by a very sharp local nbc reporter in dayton, ohio, about whether mr. mandel would have supported the auto bailout. very specific question. and mr. mandel's amazing answer earned him a page in the child's treasury. this is so great. >> he blasted those inclu
>> our campaign is going to stay focused on lower taxes. lowering gas prices using american energy and creating jobs. >> is that a yes or no? >> our campaign is going to stay focused on lowering gas prices, creating jobs, and using american energy. >> no comment? >> our campaign is going to stay focused on lowering gas prices, creating jobs, and lowering taxes. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you. i don't know if they're laughing at you, but if...
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explain how reforming the tax code would help people. do you think obama wants trillion-plus deficits every year? tell us about your foreign policy experience? your wife and kids having a good time? >> they're doing fine. they like it. great to see you. thank you for your time. >> in the midst of the whole todd akin/paul ryan rape controversy, not even a question about todd akin or rape when you have paul ryan sitting right there? in that same hour, they dealt with the paul ryan/todd akin rape issue using correspondes and other discussants but not the actual paul ryan. why would you ask him about it? not everyone in the press has to be that bad at this. again, this is what paul ryan now says about the issue of rape and pregnancy. >> rape is rape. and there's no splitting hairs. >> so we still need a straight answer from paul ryan on this. what about all of the times you personally tried to split hairs on what constitutes rape? is there going to be an apology here? have you changed your mind about it? but while we're working on what the a
explain how reforming the tax code would help people. do you think obama wants trillion-plus deficits every year? tell us about your foreign policy experience? your wife and kids having a good time? >> they're doing fine. they like it. great to see you. thank you for your time. >> in the midst of the whole todd akin/paul ryan rape controversy, not even a question about todd akin or rape when you have paul ryan sitting right there? in that same hour, they dealt with the paul...
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it's not just we want tax cuts. we want to dismantle the social safety net and that's probl problematic and something the romney campaign recognized right away. we got ryan on the ticket. ow candidate wanted this guy, but we can't run on ryanism. this is a new generation of it. >> they have ryan, so anybody who looks closely find that out about him, but anybody who is not looks cloely is hearing paul ryan essentially try to be a liberal. that barack obama is cutting the safety net, getting rid of your medicare. it's amazing, they're trying to make him run as a liberal. the worst possible choice for that strategy. >> the case is look at barack obama. he's doing what i actually said he should do. but no, we don't want to say that. >> i believe that if you look at the fundamentals, this presidential election is the republicans for the taking. and i believe that the romney campaign is fundamentally incompetent on the basicstitions they need to make to take something that should be basically theirs. just incredible. stev
it's not just we want tax cuts. we want to dismantle the social safety net and that's probl problematic and something the romney campaign recognized right away. we got ryan on the ticket. ow candidate wanted this guy, but we can't run on ryanism. this is a new generation of it. >> they have ryan, so anybody who looks closely find that out about him, but anybody who is not looks cloely is hearing paul ryan essentially try to be a liberal. that barack obama is cutting the safety net,...
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keeping the tax cults in place even for the wealthiest people in the country who don't need more tax cuts, they are not only keeping them in place, the plan calls for doubling down on the most rad cat idea of the bush tax cuts which was to narrow he target the people that have the most money and focus intently on giving them more taxpayer help than anybody else. the ryan-romney plan would give the average millionaire, look at this, it would give the average millionaire $265,000 per year. extending the bush tax cuts would give them $129,000 tax cut per year paul ryan and mitt romney are good with they. they are doubling down on the rich people bonus tax present. another quarter of a million dollars for every average millionaire. this is not the politics of past anymore. talking about george w bush at the center of today's republican party thinking and today's politics. president obama was arguing for closing the loophole that lets people that make their money as financers pay mini tax rates instead of the the tax rates that everybody else has to pay. >> you're bringing in a million bu
keeping the tax cults in place even for the wealthiest people in the country who don't need more tax cuts, they are not only keeping them in place, the plan calls for doubling down on the most rad cat idea of the bush tax cuts which was to narrow he target the people that have the most money and focus intently on giving them more taxpayer help than anybody else. the ryan-romney plan would give the average millionaire, look at this, it would give the average millionaire $265,000 per year....
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extending the bush tax cuts would give them $129,000 tax cut per year. pall r paul ryan and mitt romney are good with they. they are doubling down on the rich people bonus tax present. another quarter of a million dollars for every average millionaire. this is not the politics of past anymore. talking about george w bush at the center of today's republican party thinking and today's politics. president obama was arguing for closing the loophole that lets people that make their money as financers pay mini tax rates instead of the the tax rates that everybody else has to pay. >> you're bringing in a million bucks or more a year. what the rule says if you should pay the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle class families do. you shouldn't get special tax breaks. you shouldn't be able to get special loopholes. >> the president's proposal is sometimes shorthanded as the buffet rule named after warren buffet role. i think it might stick better with people if they call it the romney loophole. it would leave the tax rate for rich people where it cur
extending the bush tax cuts would give them $129,000 tax cut per year. pall r paul ryan and mitt romney are good with they. they are doubling down on the rich people bonus tax present. another quarter of a million dollars for every average millionaire. this is not the politics of past anymore. talking about george w bush at the center of today's republican party thinking and today's politics. president obama was arguing for closing the loophole that lets people that make their money as...
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year, and a lot of taxes. >> my view is i have paid all the taxes required by law. i don't pay more than are legally due. >> a spokesperson would only reiterate, mitt romney has paid his taexs in full compliance with u.s. law and he has paid 100% of what he has owed. >> i pay all full taxes. i'm honest in my dealings with people. people understand that. >> is there some secret? people know you're wealthy. >> i understand. >> there's nothing to hide. >> agree, nothing to hide. >> i agree. mr. romney will not release his tax returns and he cannot seem to change the subject. today, the obama campaign pressed that political advantage, addressing the romney campaign's complaint no matter what they released, the campaign would ask for more. they asked him just to release the last five years of his taxes. they promised if they did that, they would not criticize him in public for not releasing more. the romney campaign still said no. joining us now is eugene robertson, thank you very much for being here. nice to have you here. >> great to be here, rachel. >> they cannot get
year, and a lot of taxes. >> my view is i have paid all the taxes required by law. i don't pay more than are legally due. >> a spokesperson would only reiterate, mitt romney has paid his taexs in full compliance with u.s. law and he has paid 100% of what he has owed. >> i pay all full taxes. i'm honest in my dealings with people. people understand that. >> is there some secret? people know you're wealthy. >> i understand. >> there's nothing to hide. >>...
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do we want to live in a country where a minority of people are the tax providers? do you want everybody to be a stake holder? do you want everybody to have skin in the game? these are arguments worthy of a presidential campaign. what paul ryan is talking about, i think it will be blended together in the context of romney's comments, but i don't think it's necessarily fair to do it. >> i think you're right about the political blending of it and about the necessity of that discussion and that could be a sober and serious discussion. the part that makes it political is when you get this moral for anybody on the receiving side of a net transfer from the government. that's you're not taking responsibility for your life. you don't believe in the american dream stuff. >> it's the 47% comments. you're really talking about the entire enlisted core of the united states military, for example. i believe that veterans, for example, have earned the benefits that they are being given. so he described a big portion of the company that are republican voters. that's why it was so po
do we want to live in a country where a minority of people are the tax providers? do you want everybody to be a stake holder? do you want everybody to have skin in the game? these are arguments worthy of a presidential campaign. what paul ryan is talking about, i think it will be blended together in the context of romney's comments, but i don't think it's necessarily fair to do it. >> i think you're right about the political blending of it and about the necessity of that discussion and...
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let's get the taxes down for employers! now, we, of course, understand in a free market that regulations are necessary and critical, but they have to be continuously updated, streamlined, modernized, and regulators have to see their job not just as cracking down on the bad guys but also as protecting economic freedom and promoting enterprise and fostering job creation. washington has to become the ally of business and not the opposition of business. now, workers should have the right to join unions, but unions shouldn't be forced upon workers. unions should not have the power to take money out of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians favored by the union bosses. you know, out of touch liberals like barack obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do they show they don't like business very much. but the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses in the nation added together. so it's a bit like saying you like an omelet but you don't like eggs. to build a strong eco
let's get the taxes down for employers! now, we, of course, understand in a free market that regulations are necessary and critical, but they have to be continuously updated, streamlined, modernized, and regulators have to see their job not just as cracking down on the bad guys but also as protecting economic freedom and promoting enterprise and fostering job creation. washington has to become the ally of business and not the opposition of business. now, workers should have the right to join...
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but then he admitted on tape that president obama has not raised taxes. e't new ea, one thing he did not do in his first four years which is to raise taxes. >> so mitt romney admits that president obama has not raised taxes during his first term as department. mp safarwhat on ta andis he said he does not believe that. they're not admitting that he misspoke. they're not saying that he said the wrong word. they're saying he didn't mea what he clearly said. what seems to be happening here is that in the mom wn he's talking to an interviewer or speaking to an audience, he just says what they want to hear, even if it's not really his position or can't remember what his position is supposed to be or if it not really what he believes. but his campaign can't have the flip flop be on the record. beom8.ensitive to that so quietly they just erase the quote. they take it back. they say he never said that. they never admit that he might have said the wrong thing. they justry to erase from the record the wrong thing that he said. so it's two strategies. wihe tjueahe e
but then he admitted on tape that president obama has not raised taxes. e't new ea, one thing he did not do in his first four years which is to raise taxes. >> so mitt romney admits that president obama has not raised taxes during his first term as department. mp safarwhat on ta andis he said he does not believe that. they're not admitting that he misspoke. they're not saying that he said the wrong word. they're saying he didn't mea what he clearly said. what seems to be happening here is...
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reduce tax burdens and provide the lowest middle class tax rate in 58 years. once again, new york state is a place where innovation meets determination and where businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. ari'm fine.y, babe? ♪ ♪ ♪ with a subaru you can always find a way. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteoporosis and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking advair. if you're still having di
reduce tax burdens and provide the lowest middle class tax rate in 58 years. once again, new york state is a place where innovation meets determination and where businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. ari'm fine.y, babe? ♪ ♪ ♪ with a subaru you can always find a way. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically...
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you have refused, and, again, to offer specifics on how you pay for that 20% across the board tax cut. do you actually have the specifics, or are you still working on it and that's why you won't tell voters? >> and when he wouldn't give her the specifics she followed up by saying, okay, no specifics. by knowing what she was talking about particularly on foreign policy but essentially the whole night and by interrupting judicially and ab libbing appropriate follow-up questions martha raddatz covered a lot of ground that did not get touched if last week's debate, that has not been touched in the campaign much at all really and importantly helped expose some big blank spots on the policy map for the challenging party in this presidential race which before last night had been able to get away with zero specifics on anything they did not want to be specific about. so last night paul ryan either had to give specifics or we finally, finally got a giant national spotlight shining on the fact that he had no specifics to offer. that's why this debate was awesome. that's why this debate went fas
you have refused, and, again, to offer specifics on how you pay for that 20% across the board tax cut. do you actually have the specifics, or are you still working on it and that's why you won't tell voters? >> and when he wouldn't give her the specifics she followed up by saying, okay, no specifics. by knowing what she was talking about particularly on foreign policy but essentially the whole night and by interrupting judicially and ab libbing appropriate follow-up questions martha...
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any taxes. specifically in that race there was a question about whether mr. romney would be allowed to even run for governor. it was not clear that he had been living in the state for the seven years that was required by the has mass constitution in order to run for governor. his defense at the time was that he had been filing his taxes as a massachusetts resident and that that showed he was legally qualified to run it for governor. but then just like now, he would not prove it. he would not release his tax returns to show this thing that he was claiming about them. instead we were supposed to take his word for it. his spokesman told the "boston globe" in 2002 that the romney campaign did not have to prove anything, we should just trust them. he insisted that, quote, the gop candidate mr. romney had filed his returns as a massachusetts resident. but he told the reporter you'll have to take my word for it. anyone who took their word for it back in 2002 got played for a sucker because those tax re
any taxes. specifically in that race there was a question about whether mr. romney would be allowed to even run for governor. it was not clear that he had been living in the state for the seven years that was required by the has mass constitution in order to run for governor. his defense at the time was that he had been filing his taxes as a massachusetts resident and that that showed he was legally qualified to run it for governor. but then just like now, he would not prove it. he would not...
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president tried to get him on that on the $5 trillion tax cut thing. i'm not sure he effectively pinned him down on that though the obama campaign was spinning that they did. >> i think they made a mistake on that issue, the obama people did, by going with the $5 trillion. because that, you know, policy wonks can debate whether it amounts to $5 trillion or not. what they can't debate, it's a 20% tax reduction for the wealthiest americans. that is a plain irrefutable fact and if they used that, it would, first of all, explain more what this is, which is a tax cut for the wealthy which was one of several points the president wasn't able to actually convey in a clear way. and would also be, you know, be on dispute factually. >> and when a -- sorry, go ahead. >> no. >> when paul ryan spoke at the republican convention, the first reaction was, wow, young fresh guy, so handsome. you know, there's like -- an immediate positive response. later that night, that same evening in the same news cycle, the sort of second breath response was, wow, there are a lot of
president tried to get him on that on the $5 trillion tax cut thing. i'm not sure he effectively pinned him down on that though the obama campaign was spinning that they did. >> i think they made a mistake on that issue, the obama people did, by going with the $5 trillion. because that, you know, policy wonks can debate whether it amounts to $5 trillion or not. what they can't debate, it's a 20% tax reduction for the wealthiest americans. that is a plain irrefutable fact and if they used...